City to sell 22 undeveloped acres in Jasper Meadows area

The city of Springfield is planning to sell an undeveloped parcel of land in southeast Springfield adjacent to the Jasper Meadows development. 

A purchase and sale agreement for the 22-acre property along Linda Lane, south of Mt. Vernon Road and east of Jasper Road, was signed by Damon Kluck, manager of Jasper Hills LLC, on Feb. 20. The sale price is $750,000.

Articles of organization for Jasper Hills LLC, which has a Bend address, were filed Feb. 23, 2026, with the state of Oregon. The documents do not state the business’s activity. 

Kluck’s name and the same address are registered with the state under the business name Cascade Empire Lodging, which is developing a hotel in Keizer. 

The city spent $450,000 to purchase the roughly 34-acre property in December 2021 for wetland banking. As part of the Jasper Trunk Sewer Extension project, state requirements called for the city to offset wetland impacts caused by the wastewater project. The city could do this by purchasing credits in a local wetland mitigation bank or providing for permanent protection of a similar wetland. 

To meet the requirement, the city purchased the Linda Lane property and placed a conservation easement over a portion of the wetland area. There is a restrictive covenant on about 12 acres of the wetland that the city is obligated to maintain in perpetuity, City Surveyor Jeremy Sherer said during a Sept. 15 City Council meeting. At that meeting, the council declared the remaining property surplus. The city offered the land for sale and received two offers.

The council approved the purchase and sale agreement with Jasper Hills LLC at a March 9 meeting. While the council’s vote to sell the property was unanimous, two area residents spoke out against it.

Vera Moore told the council there’s only one way in and out of her Jasper Meadows subdivision. 

“There are already nearly twice as many homes as the law says we can have. And they don’t make these rules and regulations for fun. It’s to protect us, and we are not feeling protected,” she said. “And we just hope you will pay attention to that and realize it’s not suitable to add more housing in that area.”

Sherer told the council that any development on the parcel will need to go through a land use process. 

“Primary access into … any future development most likely would not be able to take access through the existing Jasper Meadows,” Community Development Director Jeff Paschall said. 

The sale agreement states the “city of Springfield may require construction of Linda Lane along the frontage of the property to its intersection with Mt. Vernon Road as a condition of the land use permit or land division approval.”

Paschall said there is an emergency access through Springfield Meadows, which is south of the Jasper Meadows subdivision. Mayor Sean VanGordon said the final plan is to add another intersection to the neighborhood. 

“We’ve got to get a second exit out of that neighborhood,” VanGordon said. 

Councilor Andrew Buck said he lives in the area and knows how bad the traffic is. 

“It’s an issue, and believe me, it’s one that my colleagues on council might have heard from me once or twice and will continue to hear,” he said. “We need to do something over there.”